Petrarch, early Italian Renaissance and the classical tradition
Elected 1992
Renaissance and Early Modern intellectual culture, especially in France and the Low Countries; sixteenth and early-seventeenth century French literature; Neo-Latin Studies; the Republic of Letters; the Classical tradition
18th-century poetry and satire, particularly Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift; textual editing; the 18th-century book
British, western European and colonial literary, bibliographical and cultural studies; reading, library, and book trade history, the history of the novel, comparative global bibliography, Scandinavian studies.
